Scannain Podcast - #23 - 2019

It's time for the Scannain podcast!

This week, Darren Mooney, Grace Duffy and Alex Towers from When Irish Eyes Are Watching discuss what we watched, the week in film news, the top ten and the new releases. Grace has recently watched The Bling Ring, Alex has seen I Am Cuba, and Darren has watched the entire Three Colours trilogy.

In terms of film news, the Virgin Media International Film Festival is taking five Irish films to the Shanghai International Film Festival, the Irish Film Institute has launched a fundraising initiative to pay for upgrades to its facilities, and a late-breaking Emmy voting scandal is in the news.

The top ten:

1. Aladdin
2. The Secret Lives of Pets II
3. X-Men: Dark Phoenix
4. Rocketman
5. Godzilla: King of the Monsters
6. Take That: Greatest Hits Live
7. Detective Pikachu
8. Ma
9. John Wick: Chapter III - Parabellum
10. Avengers: Endgame

New releases:

• Balloon
  
• Diego Maradona
  
• The Hummingbird Project
  
• We the Animals
  
• Men in Black International